Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-09
DAKOTA.

ed for Dakota.
The Milwaukee road distributes &, 900 a
month In Yanton.
Judge Palmer is acting as substitute for
Judge Spencer at Gary.
The postofiice at Liberal, Nelson county,
has been discontinued.
The Dell Rapids creamery is shipping / 500
pounds Of frst-class butter weekly.
The railway time between Mitchell and s..
Paul has been shortened seven hours.
The Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of
Pythias are organizing lodges at Faulkton.
Aberdeen has under consideration a propo-
sition to establish a creamery In that town.
The Sawyer elevator, containing $4,000
bushels OF wheat, collapsed at Tower City on
Monday.
So far but one of the jail birds who took
French-ieave Of the Mitchell jailer has been
captured.
Irving Bath, of Sioux Falls, has been APP
pointed postC flee inspector with a salary Of
$1,000 a year.
Over 81 900 changed hands In Dcadwood
last Sunday on a foot race between W. local
celebrities.
Dakota Knights Of Pythias oppose t g ad-
mission to the order Of Sandwich IslaI rs or
saloonkeepers.
The Free Trade Democrat, Of Hn.on, is
offered for sale, the editor desiring . enter
into other business.
The Second National bank OF Grant Forks
was damaged by fire and water to the ex.ent
of $500, last Saturday.
Tie new Congregational church at i ulk
ton when completed will be enc % the I est
ediices in the territory.
Next month toe Seventh cavaly Is 20 be
transferred from Montana and Dakot, % tie
department Of the Mississippi.
The Winfred water supply is said to get
ting low and he matter of sinking an artes-
Ian well is being agitated.
The Omaha road has put night tn ms on
their Sioux Falls line, and people ,f that
TOW n are pleased with the arrangement.
The Oriental Order Of Humility, Of Alex
andria, numbering 100 will parade IN the
Fourth Of July procession at that pace.
A man while blowing west Of Fau'' on,
came onto the skeletons of man al, NO
children. Close to them were the bon, 4 a
dog.
The work of opening the Aberdeen art an
well will begin Immediately. The WEI is
filed up with sand for about 200 feet al he
bottom.
The Hyers' colored comedy conn avy
stranded in Deadwood, a hard hearted H.
lord holding their baggage to satisfy thel Il
bill.
Prof. Carpenter, dean of the Rapid cry
school Of mines has had the degree Il
A. NJ. conferred upon him by the Ohio uri-
v~ersity.
The Tribune is the name of a new paper at
Yankton, the initial number Of which appeared
Wednesday. 1t is particularly devoted to the
temperance cause.
Repairs on the Deadwood water works res
ervoir have been postponed until after the
water on the natal day.
The Saloonkeepers' union Of Grand Forks
raised 300 to assist in repairing the fair
grounds, the buildings on which were de-
stroyed by the cyclone.
1.-THE town of Little Muddy, on the Missouri,
at the meeting of that stream aud the Minot
extention OF the Manitoba road, has been re-
christened, and will hereafter be called evil
liston.n
Sunday night at Mitchell a thief stole a
horse from one man, q buggy from another, a
harness from a third and a lap robe from q
fourth and skipped. The officers are after
him..
The interest in division and prohibition,
both questions to be voted on this fall, is
growing and it is plain that by the time the
vote is taken the people will be thoroughly
aroused.
1t is learned through Sheriff White, OF Nc
Cock county, that w. H. Bennett, proprietor
Of the Commercial house at Bridgewater, has
skipped the country and left many creditors
wondering where he Is.
The election at Ludden on the question Of
bonding the school district for 81, 500 for the
purpose OF erecting a new school house was
holly contested, but resulted in favor Of
bonding by a msjority Of 16.
The prisoners in the Mitchell jail sawed
their way out Tuesday evening. There were
four Of them, Fitch, Sullivan, Griffin and
Price, all in for stealing money. This is the
second time they have broken all.
A few nights ago a party of miners at Car
Donate took a barber of that place from his
house, and after giving him 3 severe beating
applied a coat Of tar and feathers to his an
atomy and warned him to leave the country
forthwith or worse would follow. The barber,
who had the habit Of beating his wife, took
the advice Of his visitors.
For some time the flow of the city a~rtesian
well at Yankton has not been as strong as
usual, and in ex PLANTATION the theory was adj
vanced that the pipe was cloggcd with stone.
On Thursday a drill was sent down the pipe
and at a depth of $40 feet found the obstruc-
ton, which was looscned by a few blows, and
the normal flow OF water returned.
The Black Hills Pioneer says the news from
the cattle ranges Is anything but encouraging.
The losses during the past winter were much
heavier than at first supposed, and are becom-
ing mere apparent As the roundup progresses.
Just what the per cent will be is not yet de-
termlned, but a majority OF cattiemen place 1t
very high and feel badly discouraged.
Some employees of the Manitoba railway
company were arrested Sunday at Petersburg
on complaint OF Attorney Johnson, Of that
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